“It’s quite a big event in a small footprint for two days,” said Cynthia Dobbs Sutton, executive director of the Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce – Main Street – Tourism Bureau.
An event of this magnitude requires a volunteer team of about 200 people who lend a helping hand to the participating art vendors and musicians, clean up downtown after the crowds have gone home, staff the information booths, work in the children’s art contest area and more. “It takes an army to put it on,” Sutton said of the volunteer effort required.
More information about the volunteer positions and the volunteer application are already available on the festival website at www.peterandersonfestival.com. This year’s festival will be held November 3 and 4. The Peter Anderson Festival is considered the largest fine arts festival in the state. It generated an estimated $24 million economic impact for the area in 2017, according to an economic impact study by Mississippi State University.
